>From "David McNab" <david at rebirthing.co.nz> >I reported earlier that certain Windows appz are censoring the '//' in MSK >URIs into '/' >A visit to www.tucows.com and other win s/w sites will quell any scepticism >here. > >But just tonight in my insomnia I read on Content of Evil that Windows XP >appz will be doing the same thing - changing '//' to '/', which effectively >bans freesites in their present syntax.
I was under the impression (at least from The Register) that *office* XP was doing this, most significantly in Word and FrontPage (I think that's what it's called). Apparently you can overcome this by just editing the HTML directly, and you could probably write a little macro that did it for you, if you cared. Also note that all the crap added by MS's obfuscated HTML format triggers the anonimity filter anyway, and probably with good reason. >What I *am* saying is that it could be crucial to Freenet's long term >welfare to phase in another URI syntax, especially for MSKs. Despite the >apparent flippancy of my previous post on the subject, I'm quite serious on >this one. > >Here's a proposal for new URI syntaxes, which tunnel completely within http >URL syntax, and won't strike any problems. No more URI encoding/decoding >blues. No more '@' => %40 etc. Double slashes *are* within the HTTP URL syntax, that's why everybody's writing those pissy articles about office being broken. We can't just go around changing our URI format every time someone writes a broken application. If Microsoft is actually being incompatible with freenet on purpose (doubtful), it's not like we can force their apps to work with us anyway. >The tiny price to pay for this is that the strings 'freenet', 'chk', 'ssk', >'svk' and 'msk' will be forever off-limits from KSK namespace. That seems like a pretty big downside to me! -- Benjamin Coates p.s. Does anybody know what happens when you have office xp hyperlink to a freenet: uri with double-slashes? _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
